The Trail's End puts a futuristic twist on the legend of Bonnie and Clyde. It's highly polished with high-end visual effects.

"On the final day of his life, an android has an unexpected encounter that alters the course of his existence. THE TRAIL'S END is a short film written and directed by David Rosenbaum that explores a re-telling of a classic; Bonnie and Clyde...or rather the prologue. It highlights the moment that the two meet and how their journey together begins. Sometimes the end, is just the beginning."

Simply building model railroads wasn't enough for Akihiro Morohoshi.
After years of creating more traditional models, Morohoshi decided to put a fresh twist on his traditional miniature models by embedding them into everyday objects. He sets scenes of imaginary worlds on top of Pringle chip cans, across electric guitars, and inside matchboxes.

These exhibits were on display as part of the "Cape/Cowl/Create" exhibition which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Batman and the release of the Batman: Arkham Knight. The exhibit will continue by touring the
U.S. following the con.

7 Awesome Cosmic Comics: With Guardians of the Galaxy hitting theaters this Friday, never has the spotlight on Marvel's cosmic characters been stronger. Characters like Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord are becoming household names, and causal Marvel fans are realizing that the Marvel Universe has more to offer than just straight-up superhero stories.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Richard Linklater might be the first to make a coming-of-age movie by shooting a single actor over a twelve-year period. But even as he was shooting his ambitious Boyhood, audiences around the world were breathlessly watching a different boy sprout up, fill out, drop his voice, fall in love, and endure a veritable parade of misguided father figures on the big screen. That boy of course was Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe. Over ten years and eight films, we saw him grow from an innocent kid, into a gawky adolescent, and finally into a brave man. It seems only fitting that he should get his own Boyhood, so here’s the Potterhood parody trailer to help remedy that.

Sean Willets & Forrest Whaley has recreated the trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy in LEGO. It's a shot-perfect recreation, with little touches like having Admiral Ackbar in the background in one scene, and other non-Guardians minifigs walking around. He even animates the mouths!

Our friends at the Warp Zone like the Legend of Zelda games almost as much as we do. This week, the Warp Zone guys took on one of the greatest mysteries from Zelda, the origin of Dark Link. Turns out, Dark Link isn’t such a bad guy, and regular Link is kind of a baby.

When
a group of bored teenagers decide to try a new drug, they expect
they'll see a fun fun hallucinations. Instead, they find themselves plunged into a
world of unimaginable horrors where hallucinations can kill. Black Sugar is a trippy blend of coming-of-age film and Lovecraftian horror that sure to please your inner-goth. The cherry on top is that, thanks to the filmmakers' use of physical effects over computer graphics, the whole project exudes an eighties film vibe that is going to tickle all the thirty-somethings out there who up watching Nightmare on Elm Street every Halloween like I did.

In this edition of Adventures Of A Comic Newbie, Amanda tackles some of the more confusing terminology in comic books: the format words (dun dun duuuunnnnn). What is a “trade”, and how is it different from a “graphic novel” (if it is at all)? What is the difference between a graphic novel and a comic book?

Wholock! The Doctor and Sherlock finally cross paths! And hey, if you were going to mashup Doctor Who and Sherlock,
you may as well make it a musical.

"Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes finally track each other down. The Doctor wants a new companion, Sherlock wants a another assistant... and so begin the Adventures of Wholock, the greatest detective duo in the galaxy!"

Game sprites were never meant to literally represent characters. Game designers were just doing the best they could. In this project, illustrator Scott Johnson demonstrates what happens when you try to interpret game sprites literally. The end results are a total horror show.

Batman, Superman, and all your other favorite heroes are joining the invading hordes of aliens dancing left to right as they slowly descend upon the Earth. The Invaders were created by artist Sayon Chatterjee for the marketing firm And Then.

"So while interning at Andthen a couple of years back I was fascinated by retro 8-bit games, especially Space Invaders. So I tried to re-imagine them with some color and created a series of iconic characters.

It was a challenge to make the characters easily recognisable because of the limited pixels I got to play with, so i took some liberty and changed a few aspects of the pixels.
At last these were the ones which made the cut."

Interview:Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples of Saga on raising Hazel: " I think we’ve grown up in a sort of culture where a lot of our
storytelling is controlled by a big corporation – that means we can’t
let these characters die, we have to keep them alive. And that’s just a
terrible way for fiction to approach things."

Although they’ve only been around in their modern form for several
decades, video games have evolved tremendously and gone from niche
subculture to mainstream acceptance. Perhaps one of the most telling
indicators of this change can be seen (and felt) through the controllers
used by gamers to control their digital avatars. To document this
growth, photographer Javier Laspiur captured
some of video game culture’s most iconic controllers. Everything from
the Atari 2600 to Sony’s PS Vita are included with some sure to send
many among us into a nostalgic time warp.

As has become the tradition at Comic-Con in San Diego, Marvel Studios released concept art as posters for its next summer tentpole. This magnificent hand-drawn Avengers: Age of Ultron poster features Ultron and his army of robots rumbling with Iron Man, Thor, Captain America,
Hawkeye, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Vision, who can be seen flying in the background.

Interview: Take Care Of Yourself: Batman Mastermind Scott Snyder On The Psychology Of Heroes, Villains And Writers.

Interview: Unapologetically Strong: Mark Waid & Terry Dodson Talk "Star Wars: Princess Leia: "Princess Leia is, of course, one of the most famous characters in science fiction, and very arguably the most famous female character. She's iconic, recognizable, and quotable. Leia is a character with a lot of implied depth that the Star Wars movies didn’t fully explore."

Friday, Microsoft released a free browser-based version of of the tabletop game Settlers of Catan called "Catan Anytime." The games was created with the latest HTML 5 web standards to maintain cross-platform interoperability as part of Microsoft's Rethink "experiences."

The game supports four-player, turn-based asynchronous gameplay, and it simplifies the experience with auto-trade and auto-roll
features, along with the ability to track games via email.

On the Windows Blog, Internet Explorer group product manager Justin Garrett explained that "Catan Anytime is not meant to replace the board game experience. We wanted to adapt the essence of Catan to the best of today's mass market game mechanics. The digital version is meant to plug the game seamlessly into our daily lives and grow the way people can experience it."

Microsoft plans to release a fuller version of the game, which will offer complete parity with the tabletop version, in August during Gamescom.

10 Steps to Make Your Creations Real: The thing about fandom is that on some level, we all wish we be a part
of what we love: We want to write a hit novel because we love to read;
we want to draw a comic book because we love to draw; we want to be a
filmmaker because we love to watch movies. But making fantasy a reality
is never as easy as the dreaming part.

The folks at ThinkGeek put so much effort into their April Fool's Day prank products every year that often times they end up turning them into a reality. Remember the Star Wars Tauntan sleeping bag ?, that started life as a prank. And of all the wonderful products ThinkGeek pretended to announce on April 1 this year, the Back to the Future Flux Capacitor car charger is the one to get the IRL nod.

Friday, July 25, 2014

This new music video for Hollow Bodies was created in collaboration with director Markus Hofko (Who's directed tracks for Flying Lotus and Débruit), and was executed as a public performance piece in tune to the music. The track is from the awesome 'Deassemble Reassemble' EP.

Twerking is a phenomenon that peaked when the word
entered the Oxford English Dictionary last August, but it hasn't disappeared quite
yet. Prolonging the moment (or perhaps hastening the decline, depending
on your perspective) of the act of "danc[ing] to popular music in a
sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low,
squatting stance" is featured in the bizarre new video for Basement Jaxx's "Never Say Never," a
six-minute dance epic featuring vocals from ETML.

"Official music video for Basement Jaxx 'Never Say Never', from new album Junto out 25th Aug."

Watch as 10-year-old Audrey gets a score of 97% performing Slayer’s War Ensemble on Rocksmith 2014. Also, be sure to watch her little sister scream her lungs out to accompany her. Probably makes you feel like a total pansy, though, huh? Yeah, me too.

"Audrey (10 years old) plays Guitar - War Ensemble - Slayer on ROCKSMITH2014. I last played this in Jan. I couldn't pass without X back then but was glad to get a GOLD PICK this time! Also, CRAZY KATE!!!!! She surprised me with her SCREAMSSSS!!!Thanks for watching!!"

I'm really impressed with what a good echo chamber this stairwell turned out be. Who needs million dollar recording studios when you can just have the staircase in the back of the building works just as well?

Mary Poppins sings, dances, and performs magical feats, all while raising a banker's brats for a bare US$7.25 an hour. That can get to you over time, but Mary still keeps a smile on her face as she explains why she is quitting her job. Kristen Bell stars in this latest video from Funny or Die.

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the 2012 Marvel superhero film The Avengers in the form of an 8-bit animated video game. Black Widow escapes the Hulk in the obligatory level-scrolling monster
chase, and Loki legitimately looks like a Mega Man villain, and—oh, just watch it. The video was written and animated by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

Hollywood is riding the nostalgia train to pandertown,
and after TMNT, GI Joe, Battleship, and the upcoming Candyland (!?)
movie, we at the Wil Wheaton Project believe it’s finally time for the
most pandering nostalgia film of all time: Literally Everything Else
From Your Childhood: The Movie!

Ellis and Rose, two bandits during an apocalypse, have been forced to relive the day of Rose’s death over and over, and unless Ellis can travel back in time and get them out of the loop, there will be no fate other than death.

"The government has been shutdown for nearly five years and Ellis and Rose, two bandits trying to survive, have been forced to relive the day of Rose's assassination over and over again. Unless Ellis can travel back in time and get them out of the loop, there will be no fate other than death."